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A screenshot shows a new linuxsucks community on the sh.itjust.works instance, a screenshot below it showing the moderator of the community getting banned five hours after its creation.

A lock without a key

  • Dude sets up community, is sole moderator
  • Dude sets up autoban bot
  • Sole moderator makes a post
  • Autoban bot deletes the post and bans the sole moderator

Sounds like a typical Microsoft experience.

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I’m still not convinced this isn’t a bit, performance art, a very dedicated jester of some kind.

It’s too perfect.

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Made me think of this gem

I hope they can establish themselves somewhere, I wanna have a good laugh at their opinions every now and then.

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Was there anything wrong with c/[email protected] ? Maybe madthumbs has other grief with lemmy.world, I’m not sure.

It was more Kauffman esque performance art.

I think that’s the sad part. They got into genuine flame wars with people. The stuff they’d reply was 100% dead serious and sad. Nothing fun or hilarious in an ironic way. Just angry and sad.

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The moderation not so much the content was what was wrong with it.

Linux needs criticism and you hear the voices of the less tech savvy if it wants to grow its user base and gain wider adoption, similar to lemmy. But if that discussion is a bad faith, “Linux is bad and you can’t change my mind” posts, with enforcement via moderation, then it’s not useful to anyone really.

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The moderation of the community or the instance? Madthumbs is also the mod at [email protected]

CubitOom
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In This specific example, the issue was purely with the community and sole moderator.

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Ok, so the new community will not change anything in that regard.

_cryptagion [he/him]
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I use Linux and I think a lot of the criticisms are not only valid, but often hilarious. Everyone who uses Linux has funny stories about fucking up their system doing something they shouldn’t have.

CubitOom
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I’ve totally done some things with dd which could have been in an episode of Silicon Valley.

It’s a meme community, calm down

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Memes are important man. People have written PhD dissertations in this shit.

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It was an unpopular shitpost community.

As a Linux user, I can enjoy memes about real problems with Linux, but his posting went beyond memes and straight into hate boner territory. He once said something about how open source is bad because a company charging money for services creates jobs.

Anything other than circle jerking about ‘Linux bad Windows good’ got you banned.

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So, it was a problem with the community moderation then. The new community is moderated by the same person, no reason it will go any different then.

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Exactly. He’s just looking for a place to stake his little fiefdom where he can circle jerk about how bad Linux is, no matter how incorrect he might be. There’s no implying that Dear Leader is wrong, just stroke or get banned.

Isn’t that the one who thought they were being brigaded when people kept downvoting their posts?

Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?

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Not sure why that post got removed specifically. I think it was just run of the mill linuxsucksposting.

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Heavy handed moderation as audience likes it.

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It says “automod.” Maybe there’s a setting where things get deleted and users banned if they instantly get 10000 downvotes.

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This is like making a penguins suck thread on a forum for penguin enthusiasts.

_cryptagion [he/him]
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Wait, the auto mod permabanned the actual mod? That’s hilarious.

Someone misconfigured something. Perhaps if they knew how a computer works this wouldn’t have happened.

Yes, saw that the other day as well, reminded me of the “flat earth discussion” policy initiated by LW and then cancelled due to the backlash, that was quite something

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Must be out of the loop, what’s LW?

Lemmy.world

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Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh that makes sense

Primus sucks.

Jerry was a racecar driver

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And he traveled with the carnival shows

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poking fun at its cultish, toxic community.

I don’t feel like I’m in a cult.

But then again…that’s just what someone in a cult would say…

Oh…God…NOOOOOOOO!!!

/s (obviously)

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Just a community with a couple of lazy memes. I didn’t see what a big problem it may be.

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A comedy in two acts. Well done.

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